Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 787

Meanwhile, somewhere in French Cyberspace

(((I have very divided feelings about these very divided French initiatives.
On the one hand, I rather admire this bold attempt by a national government
to defend and extend its national interests on the Internet. I don’t think
the French are gonna manage this feat, but if they did, at least we’d have another
working model for the organization of society. You could go to France,
and be Charlotte Gainsbourg or something, and people would actually
pay you to make French music. Would that be so bad?

Mal Au Pixel, for our Francophone net.art friends

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http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/

Valentina Vuksic - Trippin through Runtime

http://harddisko.ch/

JoDi.org - Folksomy.alpha

http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

demolécularisation - ***Be A Hero
http://projectsinge.free.fr

Dead Media Beat: the Ghost of Friendster

(((Twitter is hotter than a two-dollar pistol this season. You know how much

user-loyalty Twitter commands? Zilch.)))

(((I love those Google boys like two brothers, but if they ever get

Craigslisted in their adword-selling model, they’re gonna vaporize faster

than dry ice in the Mojave.)))

Media Contacts:

Michelle McGiboney

(408) 941-2930

pr.us@nielsen.com

Time Spent on Facebook up 700 Percent, but MySpace.com Still Tops for Video,

According to Nielsen

NEW YORK, NY - June 02, 2009 - As theories

Speaking of futurist wargames…

Washington, DC, June 2, 2009 - (…)

Held in Washington, D.C., over three days in the summer of 2008, the Clout and Climate Change War Game brought together scientists, national security strategists, and members of the business and policy communities from Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North America.

Set in the year 2015, the game tested what would happen if the world’s four greatest greenhouse gas emitters in 2015 (China, the European Union, India, and the United States) met in an emergency sessio

Crazed email skullduggery blowing out gaskets in British government

*Holy mackerel, look at this. Those habits of backstabbing centipede intrigue… we’re literally watching a political party structure devolve into a covert hacker network and sting itself to death.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/04/gordon-brown-rebel-plot-purnell-resigns

“The resignation of cabinet minister James Purnell from the government changed everything. Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a “peasants’ revolt”, a cohort without in

Not Spime Watch: Neo-Diginet Devices

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-09CESFugoo.mspx

*I don’t wanna come across as a Mister Softee hater here, and I appreciate the effort it takes to turn a freakin’ coffeemaker into a multipurpose browser. It may even be possible to sell some of these overfeatured appliances commercially. But I really don’t think this design approach is going to work.

*You don’t take today’s things and hammer some Internet functionality into them; you have to *redesign tomorrow’s things as

Web Semantics: microstructures and microsyntax

http://luebken.com/?p=171

“Overview of microstructures in use

“In the last couple of days I did some researching [0:] on microstructures / nanoformats which are actually used by applications. Here is my current list in no particular order. Let me know which I am missing.

“Dopplr

“In dopplr you can post updates of your trips via Twitter. A good example of custom readable microstructures.
A trip to Helsinki on May 19 to May 23
At SFO on September 9th. Leaving on September 20th
I’m going to Austin on July

Dead Media Beat: the short lifespan of the iPhone

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/the-short-lifespan-of-the-iphone/

“For the past several weeks, I’ve been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes. Other times, I have to just deal with it being too unbearably slow to do much of anything, including the basic phone functionality like placing a call or sending

The Mobile Apps Honor Roll

http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=137001&sectionName=feature

*These are especially interesting because they include interviews with the people

who built the applications.

*It’s also a strong hint that — out of a zillion mobile apps — you might

be able to own a mobile with curated, critically-approved mobile apps.

Imagine the aristocratic, Zen-like restraint of having a mobile with

only useful, beautiful, award-winning, “snob apps.”

*This also looks like the first recorded me

It’s been a good day for weird, unsolicited email: part six

*Clowns in Space!

Space Adventures Announces Founder of Cirque du Soleil

as 1st Canadian Private Space Explorer (((Who else?)))

Launch planned for September 2009

Mission will focus on initiatives of the ONE DROP Foundation

Moscow — June 4, 2009 – Space Adventures, Ltd., the only company that provides human space missions to the world marketplace, announced today that Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil and the ONE DROP Foundation, has begun training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Ce